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The Republican Standard
- September 4, 2018
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The 416-page appeal from the Republican speaker of the Virginia legislature prods the U.S. Supreme Court to consider “paradigmatic” errors made by the district court in their decision to declare 11 House districts unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered.

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The Republican Standard
- September 4, 2018
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Is it really this hard to find out who drew Virginia’s new legislative map? In a word, yes.

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The Republican Standard
- August 31, 2018
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Delegate Stephen Heretick (D-Portsmouth) came out against the House Democratic redistricting plan calling it “gerrymandering in response to gerrymandering. It’s tit-for-tat. It’s, in the immortal words of baseball great Yogi Berra, ‘it is deja vu all over again.'” 

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The Republican Standard
- August 30, 2018
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The map revealed by House Democrats on Wednesday shows changes in 29 of the Commonwealth’s 100 legislative districts, causing the GOP leadership to rail against the revamped boundaries.

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The Republican Standard
- August 20, 2018
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State lawmakers will come back to Richmond at the end of month to redraw the legislative districts. Meanwhile, the GOP is filing paperwork to the Supreme Court to have the lower court’s ruling overturned.

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The Republican Standard
- August 10, 2018
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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring forgets that favorable judgement has a price in the world of politics.

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The Republican Standard
- July 17, 2017
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Throwing cold water on the project, new research from UCLA and Yale suggest that independent redistricting doesn’t improve competition within districts.